Anjali Arondekar

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Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society · Sex Work in Colonial India · 1 May 2026 podcast

of the British Raj, and of course, the afterlife of the British Raj.

The fact that you and I can have a conversation and the fact that I have a colonial accent is not because I'm English, it's because post-colonialism ensured that people like me who were educated continued on the legacy of the British colonial Raj.

So it ends and doesn't end, right?

So I would say that the afterlives of the British colonial Raj are seen in London as well.

I mean, I've spent a lot of time in London.

I went to university.

as well in Oxford is that London is a post-colonial city.

Every second person looks like me.

And that's a good thing, right?

And that's the afterlife of British colonialism.

So British colonialism is not just over there.

It's also right here at your shores, right?

The Windrush generation, when a lot of our kin from the Caribbean came over and so on and so forth.

It doesn't.

But I think, you know, most of us like binaries before and after.

You know, it's like sex.

If you don't have a good time, it's not...

I tell my students it's like those adverts for erectile dysfunction that we see all the time is that you take this pill and magically everything's going to be okay.

But you know it's not going to be okay, right?

It's never okay.

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